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From: "Tyler Littlefield" <compgeek13@gmail.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: hardware question, power button not working on system.
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 11:31:34 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <003d01c69ec6$88701d80$6501a8c0@gramdmasfury> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060702204354.GA6678@gmx.net>

Hello,
I tried the sighted thing,
They don't see anything written next to any pins.
Is tehre something else I can do?
Thanks,
~~TheCreator~~
website:
http://tysplace.shaned.net
msn:
compgeek134@hotmail.com
aim:
st8amnd2005
skype:
st8amnd127
moo coder/wizard and administrator

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow@gmx.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2006 2:43 PM
Subject: Re: hardware question, power button not working on system.


> You really need sited assistence to do that.  Every motherboard is
> different as far as the connecters go and you might fry something if
> you plug it in wrong.  One way I found to tell what pins the power
> switch is (I don't recomend this unless you know what you're doing) is
> to take a paperclip or other small piece of metal and use it to
> connect pairs of pins in the connecter until the machine powers on.
> On
> Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 02:26:10PM -0600, Tyler Littlefield wrote:
> > hello list,
> > I have a problem.
> > The power button on my linux system doesn't work.
> > I used to just leave it on like 24-seven, but, that doesn't really work,
because the power went off, and now I can't turn it on.
> > I opened the computer, and I see the wire that goes to the button that I
could push to reboot the computer, running to the mother board. then, I
found the wire that runs to the power button.
> > Its a little tiney rectangular plug. It looks like it will fit over two
pins, well, I know it will. There is a little formation of pins in a square
shape rite above where the reboot chord is plugged in.
> > Is that where that should go?
> > If so, how should it plug in?
> > If not, where should I plug it in?
> > Thanks,
> > ~~TheCreator~~
> > website:
> > http://tysplace.shaned.net
> > msn:
> > compgeek134@hotmail.com
> > aim:
> > st8amnd2005
> > skype:
> > st8amnd127
> > moo coder/wizard and administrator
> > _______________________________________________
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> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>
> -- 
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> mice vs. trackballs... It was very silly.
> -- Matt Welsh
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Tyler Littlefield
 ` Alex Snow
   ` Tyler Littlefield
     ` Lorenzo Taylor
   ` Gregory Nowak
     ` Tyler Littlefield
       ` Alex Snow
   ` Tyler Littlefield [this message]
     ` Butch Bussen
 ` Gabriel Vega
   ` Sina Bahram
   ` Alex Snow
   ` Tyler Littlefield
   ` Gregory Nowak

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